Tom Graves

John Thomas Graves Jr. (3 February 1970-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-GA 9) from 8 June 2010 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Nathan Deal and preceding Doug Collins) and from GA 14 from 3 January 2013.

Biography
John Thomas Graves Jr. was born in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1970, and he later moved to Ranger, Georgia and worked as a real estate investor. Graves served in the State House of Representatives from 2003 to 2010, when he won a special election to replace Nathan Deal in the US House of Representatives. He was endorsed by the Atlanta Tea Party in 2010, and he supported Tea Party candidate Marco Rubio during the Republican Party presidential primary during the 2016 presidential election; he also said that he did not want his three children to grow up to be like Donald Trump, and that his statements ran afoul of the US Constitution and Graves' values and beliefs.